9-letter words containing w, y
- fire away — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- flangeway — an opening, parallel to a rail, made through platforms, pavements, track structures, etc., to permit passage of wheel flanges.
- flowerily — In a flowery way.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- flyweight — a boxer or other contestant of the lightest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 112 pounds (51 kg).
- flywheels — Plural form of flywheel.
- flywhisks — Plural form of flywhisk.
- fool away — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- forty-two — a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- fosse way — a Roman road in Britain between Lincoln and Exeter, with a fosse on each side
- from away — from a part of Canada other than Newfoundland
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- game away — to squander or lose in gambling
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- giveaways — Plural form of giveaway.
- glowingly — incandescent.
- gnawingly — In a manner that chafes or worries.
- goodwilly — a volunteer.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- greenaway — Kate (Catherine) 1846–1901, English painter and author and illustrator of children's books.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- grey-wave — denoting a company or an investment that is potentially profitable but is unlikely to fulfil expectations before the investor has grey hair
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
- growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- gwendolyn — a female given name: from a Welsh word meaning “white.”.
- gypsyweed — Speedwell, Veronica officinalis.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- hack away — keep chopping at sth
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hold sway — have influence
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- holy writ — the Scriptures.